Feb
22
When my elder daughter was a KG student, most often she would come home with a complaint against the teachers. I considered the complaints an expression of the ire of a truant student. When she began to say that she was often and again caned by the mathematics teacher or the EVS teacher (Yes, it …
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Feb
22
My home-boyeeee Mike Wang recently gave me another clone of Sarracenia minor var. okefenokeensis, (aka, ‘Okee Giant’). He dubbed this particular one “Clone J” for his record keeping pleasure. He has some awesome clones! A- I, and K-Z and whatever else he has in between is ALL just stunning stuff. If you haven’t figured it …
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Feb
21
‘Dollar City’ used to be a thriving textile manufacturing hub until a row over water pollution resulted in the closure of treatment plants. the aftershocks forced garment manufacturers to shut up shop and lay off workers. Economic collapse quickly followed. Adam Matthews reports: Everything in Tirupur, India, seems to revolve around clothing. and as you …
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Feb
16
January 25th, 2012 by Tim Reeves your house or perhaps place of work is going to be a site of an endless summer season, as a result of your newly purchased glass plant terrarium . You can easily see this in your thoughts now. The flowers are going to be blooming in the darkest of …
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Feb
14
March at the Cambridge University Botanic Gardens – Exotic orchids Author: Juliet Day, Development Officer, Cambridge University Botanic Garden Published: 8th February 2012 12:45 There's a surprise in store this month if you pop in to check if the carnivorous plants in the Glasshouse Range are hungry – the display has been overtaken by winter-flowering, …
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Feb
14
Tonight, prepare to be a little grossed out: videos of carnivorous plants eating stuff. Not for the faint of heart! Sundew vs. Fruit Fly Timelapse Taken over six hours. Venus Flytrap vs. Slug The audio is just buzzing, making it even more bizarre. Venus Flytrap vs. Fly Tense. Audio is bad/unimportant. Venus Flytrap vs. Butterfly …
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Feb
13
Q: I am a vegan, and I want to feed my cat a vegetarian diet. are there any problems with that? A: Cats are carnivores with specific nutritional needs that are best met when using animal sources of nutrients. for example, cats have a limited ability to convert beta-carotene from plants into vitamin A. Unlike …
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Feb
13
The UCF softball team (4-0) again won both games of their double header vs. Bethune-Cookman and Chattanooga on their second and final day of Dot Richardson’s National Collegiate Softball Invitational at the National Training Center softball complex. the Knights defeated the Wildcats in the opening game 10-4 before toppling the Mocs 6-2 in UCF’s final …
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Feb
13
Death traps that seduce insects, frogs and even mice with juicy-looking flesh and sweet nectar and then melt their bodies with acids, carnivorous plants are deceptively beautiful and totally fascinating to watch. though some botanists once thought that carnivorous plants caught insects purely by accident, we now know that they evolved a taste for flesh …
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Feb
13
Learn about the art of bonsai Internationally renowned landscape and penjing artist Hal Mahoney will speak at the monthly meeting of the Bonsai Society of Southwest Florida. Bonsai is the horticultural art of growing trees in pots that originated in China and Japan. Information about bonsai and the association will be available at the meeting. …
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